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Reminding them of Mr Lewis’s evidence, Recorder Chinn said: “He was driving down Chelsham Road, Warlingham in his black Range Rover Sport, where he saw a car coming down towards him.

"He saw the junction at Alexandra Road as a place to pull in. There was a Mercedes trying to come out there."

Mr Lewis had told the court that the Mercedes, which was being driven by Mr Lynch, had reversed back into the junction while Mr Lewis had also pulled into it, to allow the other car to pass him on Chelsham Road.

Mr Lewis said, after setting off again along Chelsham Road, that the Mercedes then appeared in his rear view mirror and overtook him at a chicane before pulling over.

Recorder Chinn told the jury that Mr Lewis, at that point, got out of the Range Rover which he had been travelling in with his wife, Jackie, and asked Mr Lynch "what the f*** was he doing and if he wanted to do this, we will do this" as he clenched his fist.